Wells Fargo has fired a bunch of employees after finding out they were pretending to work with "simulation of keyboard activity"
Wells Fargo has fired a bunch of employees after finding out they were pretending to work with "simulation of keyboard activity"
Around a dozen staffers were reportedly faking keyboard strokes to maintain the illusion of work, and have been let go by Wells Fargo as a result.
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I know this is a radical idea, but what about... measuring employees by results instead of the number of clicks on the keyboard.
That might have been how they found out. "Cody's been active for 48 hours straight and hasn't accomplished a single thing."
I'll admit I use an app to keep me from going idle, but I also was forced to come back 3 days a week and I bust my ass when I am there plus the mornings I work from home and only use it to sit back for a few extra hours in the afternoons when nothing else is pending. Also if anyone reaches out I do answer and hop on to fix or look at issues.
I wish I had a job that had such little work that I could just do whatever most days.
"Usually he gives up after 12"
If you let your workers take breaks, check their email, chat to loved ones and peek at social media, their productivity goes way up.
Similarly, if you micromanage your staff, their productivity plummets.
If capitalism worked, and companies were driven towards actually maximizing dividends, companies would actively invest in the infrastructure to keep employees happy and in working form. But instead, companies consistently splurge on letting upper management behave like children, including hiring a staff of handlers to keep the binky in their mouths. And that includes letting them bully the staff.
Some day, we dream, the ownership class will tremble before revolution of the proletariat, and maybe well take some steps towards a public-serving economy.
But not today.
If they paid based on results, you'd be in sales. Everywhere else, you're a wage slave. On the hourly side, they try to wring every second of work they can out of you, and anything else is a 'loss'. It's the same for salaried employees, the measurement is just different. Instead of work efficiency, it's work hours. The rest is just politics.